Ellen Pompeo Has a Mini Grey's Anatomy Reunion With 2 Fan Favorites

Ellen Pompeo took to Instagram to give fans a look at her reunion with two of her former cast members on Grey's Anatomy.

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Gone, but not forgotten! Ellen Pompeo is still hanging out with two of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital’s most beloved doctors. 

On June 11, the Grey’s Anatomy star took to her Instagram Story to share a video of her new dinner companions, Eric Dane and Justin Chambers. In the video, Eric and Ellen pose for a pic as Justin—who is sporting a bleached-blonde hairstyle these days—comes up behind them and pretends to be their waiter. “What would you like for dinner?” he asks, as Ellen laughs. 

As fans will recall, Eric portrayed Dr. Mark Sloan on Grey’s Anatomy for six seasons, before the so-called “McSteamy” died in a tragic plane accident in 2012’s season nine alongside Chyler Leigh‘s Lexie Grey. 

While Grey’s Anatomy is notorious for killing off a lot of its medical professionals, Justin’s time on the show ended in perhaps an even more heartbreaking way in 2020. His character, Dr. Alex Karev, unexpectedly left Seattle and his wife Jo (Camilla Luddington) in order to reunite with his former spouse, Dr. Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigl), and the twins he did not know he had. All Jo got was a letter, and all fans got was a voiceover-only performance from Justin in his final episode. (But we’re not bitter or anything!) 

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Ellen has not forgotten the friends she’s made on the medical drama, even when they’re no longer on set with her every day. In April, she posted a sweet message on Instagram about Eric’s guest star spot on Grey’s Anatomy, which came courtesy of her character Dr. Meredith Grey’s beach-set dream sequence. 

 

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“Old friends are the best friends… wait wait….but I don’t mean WE are old… I meant that we’ve known each other a LONG time,” Ellen joked in the caption of the post, which featured a selfie of her with Eric. “Yes that’s what I mean we are like two spring chicks well one spring chick and one SILVER FOX @realericdane love and appreciate you!!!”

Grey's Anatomy Season 17 Finale Finally Catches Up to 2021

Grey's Anatomy ended season 17 with a series of time jumps, and a few things changed along the way.

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We can all breathe a sigh of relief: Grey’s Anatomy made it to present day.

After months of living firmly in the middle of 2020, the Grey’s finale did some graceful time jumping to get to April 2021. All the doctors are vaccinated, people are married, people are engaged, and life, for the most part, is good. 

While Maggie (Kelly McCreary) and Winston’s (Anthony Hill) initial rushed wedding was halted by his grandma and her dad, it was only to make sure they had the wedding they deserved, with all their family members present. That, it turns out, was the April 2021 even that the whole finale was leading up to. That wedding ended up going perfectly, though Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and Teddy (Kim Raver) had to duck out early when lungs became available for a long-suffering COVID patient, whose case the finale followed over the course of eight months. 

Teddy (Kim Raver) and Owen (Kevin McKidd), meanwhile, are engaged, and Jo (Camilla Luddington) has put together a beautiful little life for herself. She worked hard to win custody of baby Luna and sold her shares of the hospital to Tom (Greg Germann). She then bought Jackson’s (Jesse Williams) condo, and moved herself and her new baby into it. She also might have an unfortunate new roommate. 

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The biggest cliffhanger-y moment came from Link (Chris Carmack) and Amelia (Caterina Scorsone), though it wasn’t exactly a surprise. Amelia doesn’t want more kids and Link really does, and it took her a really long time (the full eight months that the episode spanned) to really come to terms with that, if she even really did come to terms with it. 

After months of preparing and almost doing it once or twice, Link proposed on the beach after Maggie and Winston’s wedding. Amelia didn’t answer him, and the next scene showed Link arriving at Jo’s new place, hoping for a place to crash. 

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Sometimes, it feels like this show really has things backwards. Teddy and Owen have been through all kinds of garbage, with each of them consistently doing annoying things and making other people and themselves miserable, and we get to watch them happily and also bafflingly get engaged? Meanwhile, Amelia is stringing Link along for nearly a year as he plans a proposal and she pretends to want the same things he wants? Why does Amelia keep ending up with men who want different things than her? 

They were so nice together, so happy and pleasant to watch, and neither one of them named their baby after their dead lover, as far as we know! Why are you giving us the thing we don’t want and not giving us the thing we do want, Grey’s Anatomy?! 

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Anyway, other than that, this was a lovely, happy finale that pulled the show out of the darkness and onto a beautiful sunny beach that had nothing to do with anyone dead. We may now have to wait a while for more, but at least there’s no disaster hanging over our heads all summer. 

Elsewhere, on Station 19, Maya (Danielle Savre) and Carina (Stefania Spampinato) are successfully wife and wife but, Maya has now been fired after she defied orders to save a kid during a fire. Andy (Jaina Lee Ortiz) blames Robert (Boris Kodjoe) for Maya’s firing, and they’re not the only couple getting shaken up. 

Inara (Colleen Foy) broke up with Jack (Grey Damon) because she knows he doesn’t actually love her, while Travis (Jay Hayden) confessed his love to Emmett (Lachlan Buchanan). Emmett resisted at first, but then they were happily making out in the bathroom. 

Travis also patched things up with Theo (Carlos Miranda) and gave Vic the green light to date him after all. So of course, just as Dean (Okieriete Onaodowan) got up the courage to tell her he’s in love with her, he found that her face was already a little busy. 

Station 19 did not get to jump ahead eight months like Grey’s did, but hopefully there will be time for that in the season five premiere, after a few things get addressed. We’ll find out in a few months! 

Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19 air on ABC.

Ellen Pompeo Reacts After Spotting Photo of Her Grey’s Anatomy Character in Urgent Care Clinic

Ellen Pompeo’s character on Grey’s Anatomy may serve as more of an inspiration than the actress may have realized! Scroll on to see her hilarious reaction to seeing herself in an actual clinic.

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Paging Dr. Grey!
 
Ellen Pompeo had the best reaction to an apparent New York urgent care clinic ironically having her character—also known to Grey’s Anatomy fans as Dr. Meredith Grey—framed on their wall in their practice.
 
The discovery was made by a fan who posted the picture of the well-known character on display in the doctor’s office on Twitter and that photo caught the attention of the 51-year-old actress. She retweeted the hilarious snap with the caption, “Grab your stuff and get the hell out of there,” along with crying-face emojis.

For full reference, House, also known as Dr. Gregory House (the unconventional doctor played by Hugh Laurie in the FOX drama) comically has his own spotlight in the real-life institution as well.
 
One Twitter user asked the question on every fan mind’s once they laid eyes on the funny photos, writing, “You either go with the service or walk away? Lol.” In all fairness, since Dr. Grey is up on the wall—the clinic captured in the photo just might actually be prepared for a crazy emergency or two.

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Having the insanely popular show’s protagonist framed is definitely an interesting choice, considering what the doctor has been through during 17 seasons of the hit show. After all, with everything she has endured, Dr. Grey could be seen as the best source of inspiration and maybe even the perfect example of—um, let’s just say—perseverance.

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Most recently, fans of the medical drama even saw the character come out of a weeks-long induced coma after a bout with COVID-19.
 
“We all know 2020 has been a really long, ugly road,” Ellen explained back in November. “And we were so happy just to be able to film these scenes and know how much joy it was gonna bring people…we definitely had a ball.”
 
Looks like the Grey’s Anatomy characters aren’t the only ones having a ball with their franchise.